"We won't run the risk of interruptions," he went on, with that slow, clear enunciation of his which most Oxford men have, and keep all their lives, especially men of the college that was hisBalliol.

"It is generally admitted," he says, "that in criminal falsehoods there must be not only the enunciation or signification of what is false, and an intention to deceive, but also a violation of some obligation."

" This judicial opinion was an enunciation of the archaic law of caste as opposed to the modern law of equality, and the cataclysm of the French Revolution hinged upon the incapacity of the French aristocracy to understand that the environment, which had once made caste a necessity, had yielded to another which made caste an impossibility.

Enunciation of God's invitations, and promises in God's own words, as in the Common Prayer Book, much better.

The conjuncture demanded a free, a full, and explicit enunciation, not only of my intentions, but of my principles of action; and as the claim was asserted of a right by a State to annul the laws of the Union, and even to secede from it at pleasure, a frank exposition of my opinions in relation to the origin and form of our Government and the construction I give to the instrument by which it was created seemed to be proper.

While they are to a certain extent interchangeable, the word "discovery" in science is usually applied to the first enunciation of some property of nature till then unrecognized; "invention," on the other hand, is the application of this property to the uses of mankind.

In some places, where academic freedom, as the students style it, exists to a high degree, a general scraping of the feet admonishes the lecturer to repeat his words or be more distinct and clear in his enunciation.

In the first, the figure is perhaps robust, but often otherwise,inelegant, partly from careless attitudes, partly from ill-dressing,the face is uncouth in feature, or at least common,the mouth coarse and unformed,the eye unsympathetic, even if bright,the movements of the face clumsy, like those of the limbs,the voice unmusical,and the enunciation as if the words were coarse castings, instead of fine carvings.

We would like to do so, of course; but our sense of truth revolts against the enunciation of such a taradiddle.

But the bare enunciation of such an absurdity as this last, renders refutation superfluous.

Then a hollow sound, which came from the chest of the stranger, caused them both to start; and, as his low, but distinct enunciation rose on their ears, doubt and perplexity vanished.

His manner is earnest and animated, his enunciation is beautifully clear and distinct, the tones of his voice are singularly pleasing and persuasive, stealing their way into the hearts of men, and charming them into assent to his propositions.

"To signify the thick and slender enunciation of tone.

If the prolixity and multiplicity of these observations transcend the reader's patience, let him consider that the questions at issue cannot be settled by the brief enunciation of loose individual opinions, but must be examined in the light of all the analogies and facts that bear upon them.

If time be not given for the full enunciation of any word which we attempt to speak, some of the syllables will of course be either lost by elision or sounded confusedly.

"Emphasis is extraordinary force used in the enunciation of such words as we wish to make prominent in discourse."

The last is described under the character of Bartoline, with the same lisping imperfect enunciation which distinguished the original.

The inversion deceives no person, and it is almost more appropriate to the colloquial jocularity of the great Lexicographer's bombast than if the enunciation had been more strictly according to rule.

The bare enunciation of principles is not enough; they must be clothed upon by sentiment and affection.

His voice was rather high and unmusical, but his distinct enunciation and earnestness of manner gave a peculiar attraction to his pulpit oratory.

In the ninth century A.D. this new enunciation was giving rise to a new poetical technique founded upon accent and rhyme, which first essayed itself in folk-songs and ballads, and has since experimented in the same variety of forms as English poetry.

VIZETELLY, FRANK H. How to speak English effectively; a guide to the art of correct enunciation with a list of some words often mispronounced from coast to coast.

In calling out a station's name He is undoubtedly to blame For failing, as a rule, to aim At clear enunciation; But, since the War, he hasn't struck Or downed his toolsI mean his truck And plays the game with patient pluck Like a sturdy Briton.

" His silly repetitions, his slurred enunciation, his slightly unsteady figure made me realize with a quick horror that the man was more intoxicated than I supposed.

how human thought only turns in a circle, and how, when we think we are on the verge of a new thought, we slip into the enunciation of some time-worn truth.